Improvement in harness



A. GRABNER.

V HARNESS. No.174,4;18 Patented March 7,1876.

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ATTQHNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW GRABNER, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENTVIN HARNESS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 174,418, dated March 7, 1876 application filed January 29, 1876.

' To all whom it may concern: 7

vBe it known that I, ANDREW GRABNER, of

Adrian, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breast-Strap Slides for Harness, of which the following is a speci fication:

" same time possess other advantages, hereinafter mentioned.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, A represents the slide complete, having a triangular shape. B B are upper and lower flanges, forming the top and bottom of an external recess or groove for the embedding of the strap. G O are openings through the web A of the slide, which diminish its weight, and also afl'ord a ready means of upsetting their edges or turning them into flanges or bars D D, which secure the ring of the pole-chain or neck-yoke between their forward ends, and there hold it, allowing the slide to vibrate upon the ring as upon a pivot. The vertical shifting-bars E E serve two purposesone for the attachment to them of the hames-strapin light harness, instead of the strap passing entirely around the slide, and the other that of clamping or lie snug therein, as is the case in the slide forming the subject of this invention.

Having thus fully described this improved breast-strap slide for harness,as'of my invention I claim-- 1. A breast-strap slide for harness, constructed with slots 0 O, which are provided with bars or flanges D D, as shown, for the purpose described.

2. The flanges B B, provided with transverse shit'ting-bars E E, eccentrically pivoted thereto, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing "as myown I afflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

J. W. HELME, R. B. ROBBINS.

ANDREW GRABNER. 

